The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESWorldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
-
-
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES -
Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES -
To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES -
I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES -
One’s knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES -
The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES -
The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES -
I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself is in many ways extremely objectionable.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES -
It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES -
How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES -
But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES -
The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES -
In the long run we are all dead.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES -
I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES -
There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES